Abstract/Summary

In this article Geoff Tennant summarises the first half of Imre Lakatos's seminal 1976 book, "Proofs and refutations: the logic of mathematical discovery". Implications are drawn for the classroom treatment of proof.

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Lakatos, I. (1976). Proofs and refutations: the logic of mathematical discovery. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.